Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!mg20+ From: mg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Paul Greelish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Atari Mortis Message-ID: Date: 16 May 91 23:10:05 GMT References: <9105141732.AA19207@cwns10.INS.CWRU.Edu>, <75963@brunix.UUCP> Organization: Class of '92, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 33 In-Reply-To: <75963@brunix.UUCP> Ah, STart has gone belly-up. I'm not surprised. The entire Atari market has gone belly-up. It's next to impossible to get *anything* for your Atari (in my experience) without resorting to Atari-specialty stores and mail order (and even they are drying up.) People are deserting Atari left and right: dealers, users, and certainly developers. Software is slowing to a trickle. I hope to god I can sell my 1040ST, monitor, printer, and tons of software for even a third of what I paid for it all. Atari can't come out with a new product that will sell (or even pass FCC approval, it seems.) There is no way in hell I would buy a TT, even if it wasn't ridiculously overpriced. Atari may not go bankrupt, but it'll take a miracle for it to get back anything like the market share it once had. I remember the golden years. I was twelve years old when I got my 48K Atari 800 and tape drive. I was seventeen when I got my 1040ST. Now I'm a starving college student with barely enough money to get a Mac LC if I work my butt off all summer. I'm not trying to start a flame war here, but Atari is on its last legs. No one I know wants anything to do with them or their products. God, this sucks. I was brand loyal and didn't buy an Amiga. I hate IBMs, and Macs still cost a lot. Atari used to have good products at great prices. No more. I'm sorry for the rant and rave. Maybe it's all the Tramiels' fault. Maybe it's a natural economic cycle. Or maybe I've outgrown unreliable companies like Atari. Apple Computer, here I come. *Sigh.* ______________________________________________________________ |\ /| | \/ | ike Greelish Carnegie Mellon U. undergrad, professional writing major quote: "Up against the stick, motherwalkers, this is a fuck-up!"---Unknown disclaimer: The Secretary will disavow any knowledge of my actions.